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Monday, December 19, 2016

Keep Progressive Rock Alive

(The first issue of Prog Magazine, 2009)

Today’s news can’t be any good. I received a bit of surprise
when I read online that TeamRock which was home to publications such as Classic
Rock Magazine, Metal Hammer, and one of my favorites Prog Magazine, the people
who worked their butts off on their articles, reviews, and interviews with
these amazing bands, artists, and some who were up-and-coming, were laid-off.
To me, it’s a hard blow, because for me these were the magazines I would
sometimes pick up either at Barnes and Noble or on eBay at times. And they showed what was happening both old and new.

I became a writer/blogger back eight years ago thanks to
reading the magazines such as Classic Rock Magazine and Commerical Music Forum
when I was taking back at Houston Community College in my degree in Jazz
Studies. I’ve always wanted to be a writer. The course I took which was I have
to write five concert reviews and I had a great time and that was where I knew
where I would build up.

The blog site wouldn’t have gotten started if it wasn’t not
just Houston Community College, but magazines such as Classic Rock Magazine and
Prog Magazine which launched back in 2009. I admired writers including Geoff
Barton, Malcolm Dome, Natasha Scharf, Jerry Ewing, Dave Ling, Jo Kendall, and my
favorite Sid Smith. Who I consider the mastermind expert of King Crimson. I was originally going to consider him, the Sherlock Holmes of King Crimson, but that would be too much.

Prog Magazine was the magazine that introduced me to bands
such as; Panic Room, Magenta, Blood Ceremony, ASTRA, Iamthemorning, Within
Temptation, Purson, Pure Reason Revolution, and Crippled Black Phoenix to name
a few. Not to mention Steven Wilson's debut as a solo artist with Insurgentes. And with the Progressive Music Awards and labels including MoonJune
Records, Rise Above Records, and of course opening more of my eyes to the
Cherry Red label, Esoteric Recordings which has been my favorite reissue label,
it pushed opened the doors to Esoteric Antenna and Reactive.

I appeared in the magazine where I did a few things including asking a question for Carl Palmer, my top ten albums of 1974 in which I picked Gentle Giant's The Power and the Glory, and one of my top Kate Bush songs including the song Kite. It wasn't until I was asked by the magazine on Facebook to pick one of my favorite albums and I was spellbound at first. but I had to keep my fanboy distance away and it was hard to pick a favorite album, I picked one of my favorites from the Rock Progressivo Italiano scene of the 1970s which was Metamorfosi's second album based on Dante's The Divine Comedy or The Seven Deadly Sins of Hell, Inferno.

We need this music to keep the wheels and machine going to
come and inspire newer generations who are going through their parents
collection and delving into early Genesis, ELP, King Crimson, Yes, Rush, and
Pink Floyd that showed it will opened their eyes of real good music. I still support up-and-coming bands and newer
bands now. With admires of the Aaron Clift Experiment, Proud Peasant, Bent Knee, Knifeworld, Worhol, Sanguine Hum,
The Fierce and the Dead, and La Coscienza Di Zeno. I still support the music whether people like it or not.

Progressive Rock still makes the lava flow when a volcano
erupts at the right moments from the synthesizers, mellotrons, mind-blowing
drums, bass, and guitar work. The music industry is sometimes cruel. It’s hard
for them to make it and not make it to the big time. But I’m a little
off-topic. Let me close it up.

Prog has been inside me for 11 years. Please show your
massive support and buying the magazines as I’ve mentioned from Classic Rock
Magazine, The Blues, and Metal Hammer to name a few. I will keep the music
alive and show my support to the genre until the day I die. As Stan “The Man”
Lee said, With Great Power, Comes Great
Responsibility.

Here’s this website to show your support with crowd-funding done by Orange Goblin's Ben Ward.

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I'm a blogger/freelance writer from Houston, TX who writes album reviews because I enjoy it. Even though, I'm not the best writer, there is no stop sign for me. I have a love of Progressive Rock music, Jazz Fusion, and Early Heavy Metal music from the '60s to the early '80s. I went to HCC (Houston Community College) for nine years and have completed my degree in Music in Performance: Jazz Studies. I've been writing Progressive Rock and Symphonic Metal reviews starting back in 2008 on my blogsite and it never gets old.